Voices from Harare
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- 2012-08-29
Batsirai Chigama, poet and writer; gender officer and project coordinator for FLAME (Female Literary Arts and Music Enterprise) project; Pamberi Trust, The Book Cafe Harare; 29 Aug. 2012.
nine clips (total: 7 mins)
and five footage interview tracks (47 mins) at: https://archive.org/details/Voices_from_Harare_243
This interview and conversation with the poet and writer Batsirai Chigama is, like Batsi's performance poetry, both strong and soft. Batsirai is now a sought-after performance poet and published writer, besides being a very involved gender officer and project coordinator for the FLAME project at Pamberi Trust/ Book Cafe Harare. What has been her way and how does she see and describe her role as a women and poet? She tells how she slowly gained confidence in her own voice moving from administration into arts admin into the arts with her own work; and from writing in to performance practice. "Most of my poetry is inspired by the struggles that women go through; or, their triumphs as well...", she says in the interview.
Batsi has quite a strong online presence as a poet, which she maintains herself and, she says brought her quite a few international contacts and publications - while opportunities for publications in Zimbabwe a rare. She explains that for herself, she even prefers online representation to radio or TV. Batsirai Chigama has performed her poetry at national festivals like HIFA and Intwasa Arts Festival, as well as at festivals in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Malawi. She also writes short stories, which have been published online, and contributes regularly to the popular arts website Zimbojam.
online sites:
http://www.batsiraichigama.maumbile.com
http://badilishapoetry.com/artists-profile/194/
https://www.facebook.com/ntombekhayae
https://soundcloud.com/batsirai-e-chigama
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwQj2v7jr6riTa04uSkOdAA
http://www.flameproject.blogspot.de
http://www.zimbabwearts.org
This playlist forms part of THE WOMEN SING AT BOTH SIDES OF THE ZAMBEZI, an archive of life-story-telling by African women. For more information and how you can join, read here: http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/
You are welcome to join our facebook group or follow the blog for updates on new recordings to the audio archive http://www.facebook.com/groups/506668076047173/
http://www.radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com
nine clips (total: 7 mins)
and five footage interview tracks (47 mins) at: https://archive.org/details/Voices_from_Harare_243
This interview and conversation with the poet and writer Batsirai Chigama is, like Batsi's performance poetry, both strong and soft. Batsirai is now a sought-after performance poet and published writer, besides being a very involved gender officer and project coordinator for the FLAME project at Pamberi Trust/ Book Cafe Harare. What has been her way and how does she see and describe her role as a women and poet? She tells how she slowly gained confidence in her own voice moving from administration into arts admin into the arts with her own work; and from writing in to performance practice. "Most of my poetry is inspired by the struggles that women go through; or, their triumphs as well...", she says in the interview.
Batsi has quite a strong online presence as a poet, which she maintains herself and, she says brought her quite a few international contacts and publications - while opportunities for publications in Zimbabwe a rare. She explains that for herself, she even prefers online representation to radio or TV. Batsirai Chigama has performed her poetry at national festivals like HIFA and Intwasa Arts Festival, as well as at festivals in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Malawi. She also writes short stories, which have been published online, and contributes regularly to the popular arts website Zimbojam.
online sites:
http://www.batsiraichigama.maumbile.com
http://badilishapoetry.com/artists-profile/194/
https://www.facebook.com/ntombekhayae
https://soundcloud.com/batsirai-e-chigama
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwQj2v7jr6riTa04uSkOdAA
http://www.flameproject.blogspot.de
http://www.zimbabwearts.org
This playlist forms part of THE WOMEN SING AT BOTH SIDES OF THE ZAMBEZI, an archive of life-story-telling by African women. For more information and how you can join, read here: http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/
You are welcome to join our facebook group or follow the blog for updates on new recordings to the audio archive http://www.facebook.com/groups/506668076047173/
http://www.radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com
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